An Improved Representation for Content-Based Television Personalization

While content-based personalization of television programs on a digital video recorder avoids the privacy problems of collaborative approaches, the content descriptions of most television guides does not provide sufficient information to correlate with user preferences. We discuss an enhanced representation of television content and show that it improves the performance of personalized television. Furthermore, we show that the system tolerates multiple users in the same household with drastically different tastes.